Charles Chabwera Banda

Candidates About

Summary
I Charles Chabwera Banda,(MBA Marketing and Project Management Matrix
Institute of Business Management India) am an accomplished expert in
strategic management, policy development, organisation and institutional
development, team building, mentoring and coaching, human relations and
networking, project management, rural development, and business
development with 20 years practical and hands-on experience in the areas of
food, nutrition and livelihoods security, youth development, emergency
relief/humanitarian response, enterprise development and economic
security, business development services, strategic marketing, grants
management, gender audit and analyses, HIV and AIDS prevention, care and
treatment, sexual and reproductive health, rural development, youth
mobilisation and inclusion and policy advocacy with reputable international
non-governmental organisations including Save the children fund, and
Children on the move South Africa. I have a successful track record of
designing and managing a range of complex programmes ranging from youth
skills development, poverty alleviation amongst the disadvantaged youth,
governance, food, nutrition and livelihoods security, resilience
building/climate change mitigation and adaptation, HIV and AIDS care,
prevention and support, business development and marketing, farmer
organisation and collective marketing, policy influencing and rural
development programmes. In addition, I have vast experience in managing
and working with multi-disciplinary and multicultural teams. My considerable
knowledge gained from living and working in dynamic environments with
local communities over years, strengthens my insightful contributions
towards effective programme development and participatory monitoring and
evaluation. I am an astute and qualified project management and marketing
person and my strength is drawn from my being a pro-active team builder and
team player, strategic thinker, a man of integrity who adheres to deadlines, a
self-starter, hard-worker who pays attention to detail, a self-motivated and
results-oriented person with demonstrated leadership acumen at strategic
level, effective communication (both written and oral) and interpersonal
skills, tact and diplomacy, sound human and public relations skills, people
management and motivation and negotiation skills. I am currently working
with Children on the move as Programmes Manager.